Fierce Creature Originally uploaded by Joshua Ellis This is Flocka. Her owner, Scott, works at the laundromat next to the Coffee Bean and hangs out here. She is ADORABLY FIERCE.
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Why The World Doesn't Need John Peel (Or Doesn't Think It Does)
There’s an excellent Poptimist column by Tom Ewing over at Pitchfork about John Peel’s unique position in music history, and why his legacy of educating his audience may never be revived. After Peel’s death there was a general assumption– not much discouraged by the BBC– that there could never be another broadcaster like him. His […]
links for 2008-02-22
Stanford drops tuition for some students Free for students whose parents make under $100K; free room and board for $60K or less. Nice. (tags: interesting education i’m-broke-can-i-go?)
Go Bag
Matt Jones has a bunch of del.icio.us links today about what constitutes a “go bag” — i.e., the bag you keep for an emergency situation. Browsing around, I found a couple of links on the subject. Pretty useful if you’re planning on keeping a go bag, and I recommend it. It may sound like retard […]
The Album Update, 02-21-08
So I’m probably now 3/5ths done with the album. I’m remixing and re-recording everything one last time. I created a new folder for the final album sessions and copied ‘n’ pasted the bits from all the previous recordings that I liked — good basslines, good guitar bits, the rendered electronic tracks out of Reason — […]
links for 2008-02-21
cityofsound: The street as platform Excellent post by Dan Hill. If you’re interested in ubiquitous computing — or even the future of how cities work — this is worth your time. (tags: urbanism ubicomp)
links for 2008-02-20
Texas Beyond History (tags: history texas)
Doughty's Got A New Joint
Mike Doughty’s new album Golden Delicious drops today. You may remember Doughty as the lead singer of Soul Coughing, back in the day; I was a Soul Coughing fanatic (thanks, Summer!) and his solo self-released albums Skittish and Rockity Roll rank as some of my favorite music of the last decade. Mike is one of […]
Fidel Castro retires after 49 years in power – Yahoo! News
Fidel Castro retires after 49 years in power – Yahoo! News You mark my words — this is the beginning of the end of trad communism in Cuba, and — I suspect — the beginning of a sort of renaissance. I’m convinced that once things settle a bit, they’re going to start bringing gambling back […]
Auugh
I just spent an hour and a half or more cleaning the kitchen. When I say “cleaning”, I mean I cleaned my stove’s hood and undercarriage (it’s one of the kind with two ovens, one above and one below the range, which means all the grease from the range cakes onto the bottom of the […]